Hill and Burnett discussed their acute focus on bettering their work and moving "forward," not "side-to-side," and creating music that draws from internal struggle, not musical heroes. ("I'm not that fascinated by human achievements," Burnett said.)

A lot of things have to be determined that aren't that interesting-- figuring out how we're going to [move forward]. And whether we're going to do that ourselves, or who's going to do that with us, based on our actions of purposefully trying to get out of the record deal we're exiting right now.

They also explained that their tour cancellation from earlier this year came from being "obsessed with the idea of completing [NO LOVE DEEP WEB]" because it was "way more in tune with what we were experiencing as people in life" than the album they were promoting at the time, The Money Store. All of which feeds into their continued mode of working without expectations. Hill said:

When we started [Death Grips] it was, and still is, from a super pure, genuine place. Not naive, but without expectation. It's not contrived in that way. How we started, what we're about, everything we've done-- it's very improvised. It's based on what we did last, or what is coming at us at a certain time. Even in life-- we aren't people with big expectations. We don't expect much from other people. But that has to do with what our lives have been like outside of music; what you've experienced, even as a kid.